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Corporate Technologies and the Tech Nirvana Fallacy

Time and time again, corporate scandals remind us of the importance of the mechanisms aimed to ensure that agents within corporations perform their tasks and duties in line with the...

30 March 2020

Luca Enriques

Dirk A Zetzsche

Financial Operating Systems

The impact of technology on finance (FinTech) is one of the hottest topics in business, law, and regulation, with academics and practitioners considering many issues, including cryptocurrencies, robo-advice, initial coin...

26 March 2020

Dirk A Zetzsche

William A. Birdthistle

Douglas W Arner

Ross P Buckley

Will the EU Commission Successfully Integrate Sustainability Risks and Factors in the Investor Protection Regime? A Research Agenda

The current enactment of the EU Action Plan for financing sustainable growth (the ‘Action Plan’) is a sign of the EU’s efforts to support the transition to a sustainable economic...

19 December 2019

Shanshan Zhu

Michele Siri

Law and Finance in Britain c.1900

Over the past two decades, a series of influential papers in economics and finance have found institutions to be powerful predictors of economic and financial development that exert persistent effects...

The Protection of Investors and the Compensation for their Losses: Australia

Investor protection has been an ideal in corporate and securities law ever since the early 20th century, when Berle and Means famously highlighted shareholder vulnerability in modern public corporations. In...

16 November 2018

Olivia Dixon

Jennifer Hill

The Legal Framework for Financial Advertising: Curbing Behavioural Exploitation

My article offers a normative behavioural finance analysis of the marketing communications regime in Europe’s new Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). The article aims to bridge...

29 June 2018

Martin Brenncke

Asset Segregation Rules for Central Securities Depositories: Maximizing Investor Protection while Ensuring a Level Playing Field

Central securities depositories (CSDs) are of systemic importance for financial markets. In Europe, for instance, the European Association of CSDs (ECSDA) documented that in 2017 the total value...

9 April 2018

Randy Priem

The Mandatory Bid Rule – Unnecessary, Unjustifiable and Inefficient

The Mandatory Bid Rule (MBR) forms an important part of the EU Directive (2004/25) on Takeover Bids. The MBR is generally seen as a benign protection of investors in listed...

15 March 2018

Jesper Lau Hansen

Who Falls Prey to the Wolf of Wall Street? Investor Participation in Market Manipulation

‘Seniors [are] particularly vulnerable to investment scams’ read one news headline. ‘We are taking further steps to find and eliminate from our system pump-and-dump scammers, those who prey on retirees’,...

Private Equity Investor Protection: Conceptualizing Duties of General Partners in China

China’s private equity industry is expanding at an unprecedented pace and has now become the world’s second largest and Asia’s largest private equity market in terms of fundraising amount. As...

4 October 2017

Lin Lin

Corporate Technologies and the Tech Nirvana Fallacy

Financial Operating Systems

Will the EU Commission Successfully Integrate Sustainability Risks and Factors in the Investor Protection Regime? A Research Agenda

Law and Finance in Britain c.1900

The Protection of Investors and the Compensation for their Losses: Australia

The Legal Framework for Financial Advertising: Curbing Behavioural Exploitation

Asset Segregation Rules for Central Securities Depositories: Maximizing Investor Protection while Ensuring a Level Playing Field

The Mandatory Bid Rule – Unnecessary, Unjustifiable and Inefficient

Who Falls Prey to the Wolf of Wall Street? Investor Participation in Market Manipulation

Private Equity Investor Protection: Conceptualizing Duties of General Partners in China

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